BLOOMINGTON – Indiana and Purdue get to spread their men's basketball rivalry over more than one game this season, and over more than one month.

The Hoosiers and Boilermakers meet twice this season — after playing just once in 2013-14 — with Purdue hosting the first game on Wednesday, Jan. 28. The rematch in Bloomington comes on Thursday, Feb. 19.

Because they will meet twice this year, the Hoosiers and Boilermakers are guaranteed just one meeting in the 2015-16 season.

Under the Big Ten's new 14-team scheduling format, each school plays five opponents twice, four at home only and four away only. Both the Hoosiers and Boilermakers will rotate in five new two-play opponents next season.

• Indiana enters the Big Ten schedule at a sprint. The Hoosiers open at Nebraska on New Year's Eve and travel to Michigan State on Jan. 5, before hosting Ohio State for their home opener on Jan. 10. That means IU will face three NCAA tournament teams from last March in their first three conference games, two on the road.

IU's two-play opponents this season include Purdue, Michigan State, Ohio State and newcomers Maryland and Rutgers.

• Purdue's early conference schedule is no more kind.

The Boilermakers open with home games against Minnesota and Michigan, but they'll also have to face Wisconsin, Maryland, Illinois, Iowa and Indiana in their first month of Big Ten play. Purdue will close its season tough as well, with games at Ohio State and Michigan State, and then at home against the Fighting Illini.

• The new scheduling format isn't the only change the 14-team league will force. The Big Ten tournament — in Chicago this season — will begin on a Wednesday and last five days instead of four.

Seed Nos. 11-14 will play in the opening round. The conference's top four seeds will receive byes all the way to the tournament quarterfinals. Between them, Indiana and Purdue have won just one Big Ten Tournament, when the Boilermakers won it in 2009.